Teaching primary students the Western way

thangnguyen · Post by **thangnguyen** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:10 am

Hi there,

I visited some international primary schools and really admired the way the classroom looks: full of self-portraits, self-sayings posted by students. What I found was that those postings helped the students to self-express and promoted their self-estem. I just didn't know whether those practices are spontaneously proposed by the teachers or are part of some basic activities that must be built into the primary education curriculum (i.e teachers must dedicate a certain amount of time per day asking students to draw/write/do something about themselves or getting them involved in project works using a prescribed set of themes etc.). I want to apply the same teaching style to our schools which currently lack those practices.

Can anyone help me with those observations or tell me any websites or readings where I can check those out?

Thanks

lazzy · Post by **lazzy** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:08 am

hey , r u from viet nam too?

thangnguyen · Post by **thangnguyen** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:54 am

Yes I am. Can you help?

billjordan · Post by **billjordan** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:39 pm

yes

I'm from the United States. Reading and Writting are strongly connected. The best way to engage students is to have them Write and about things they are interested in. Student's love to share things about themselves, thier familes, pets etc.. Teachers take advantage of this.

I have found that student's love to draw. Especially when there is no pressure to produce "art". I usually have the students draw a picture for about 10 minutes and then compose a story around the picture. This allows the student's to self select the topics that they are going to write about. I then ask the students to share thier pictures and stories with the class. Student's love to show thier work. This builds self confidence and self esteam.

The goal is to get students to write. Once they start writting the goal is to encurage them and improve thier writting skills.

I hope this has been helpful....I'm not sure I answered your question

thangnguyen · Post by **thangnguyen** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:55 am

Yes you did. I also found out recently that a very simple but helpful practice to encourage children's learning is to display what they've done. Thanks

lazzy · Post by **lazzy** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:25 am

i dont know i can help or not but u know it is a bit difficult in vn coz the children are not very creative as the teachers are lazy, we just want the children to follow us but not think themselves. if u find out that , you can show them how to do it, just another prob is english is our foreign lang. it is diff for them to write down such a quote for example. so we can teach them how to do a simple things for example how to make a leaf pics or how to draw a simple angle or pirate, you can find some books teach how to.and more you can find some materials for class arrangement and class lang. it helps alot
hope this works, if you want to know more , you can ask me. - are you a teacher, too?